A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆This "Gulf of America" is just another fascist loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up into camps or look the other way while you do it. Anyone who won't puts themselves on the round-up list.
Thomas Franklin William Arnold@JuliusGoat it will be interesting to see how many of the 2nd Amendment fanatics have a problem with the erasure of the 1st Amendment.
2¢@Tom @JuliusGoat perhaps they have nothing to say.
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LukefromDC@Tom @JuliusGoat Actually I think a lot of people may find their second amendment rights more useful then their first amendment rights when saying NO to being rounded up.
I always liked that scene in Red Dawn where the occupation troops are about to execute a bunch of civilians only to be themselves taken out by machinegun fire from the Wolverines.
Ciggy Bringer of SmokeThere's a grim economic calculus that The State really can't afford to take casualty after casualty if it comes to it, but the bet is most people don't and won't lay out 12 if 13 come looking for them.
@ciggysmokebringer @Tom @JuliusGoat Cops are a very small part of even the worst police state's population.
No government can afford to get into a war of attrition against their own population. They'd run out of cops in a big hurry.
Right now, a soft version of this is in fact limiting policing in the US: ever since Ferguson and even more so since the Uprising, fewer people are willing to become cops than are retiring from police forces. They can no longer defend a decision to join the police to their families or their neighbors, so they don't.
Every time you don't get arrested because the cops lack the numbers, you are directly benefiting from the hard work of BLM and the tough fighting of the 2020 Uprising.
Maier Amsden@Tom @JuliusGoat The 2A crowd likes to say, "The 2nd Amendment protects the 1st." My response is, "They don't need your guns if they own your mind." Most Trumpist 2A advocates will cheer (are cheering) Trumpist attacks on speech. If their propagandist of choice says the words "lies" or "fraud" or "bias," that's all the rationale they need to silence dissent. (It's lost on them that Trump and the #ConservativePropagandaMatrix are the *most dishonest and fraudulent. #ConfoundingGoebbelsianLies)